STARLIGHT ON THE RAILS
Copyright 1973, 2000 Bruce Phillips Rosalie Sorrels has good rendition also in Key of G Stranger
of Another Country Album
Starlight On the Rails, A Song Book (Album)
Banjo Tuned E, Play Key D
Starlight On the Rails
D A7
I can hear the whistle blowing
D
High and lonesome as can be
G D
Outside the rain is softly falling
A7 D
Tonight its falling just for me
A7 D
Looking back along the road I've traveled
A7 D
The miles can tell a million tales
G D
Each year is like some rolling freight train
A7 D
And cold as starlight on the rails
I think about a wife and family
My home and all the things it means
The black smoke trailing out behind me
Is like a string of broken dreams
A man who lives out on the highway
Is like a clock that can't tell time
A man who spends his life just rambling
Is like a song without a rhyme
